For anyone that is interested in checking out DDO you can sign up for a free account and download the free client here: http://www.ddo.com/playnow/
DDO is now free to play and recently updated it's content. There is a premium service you can pay 15 bucks a month for, as well as paying on a per option basis (Want more character slots? Pay them! Want to be able to play a warforged? Pay them! Want to be able to play as a monk? Pay them!), but from what I can see, a large portion of the game is free to play. I made a human barbarian named Tenilith on the Khyber server for anyone that is interested in checking things out together, let me know!